Oct 07

Wolsey Orchestra
Promoting Musical Excellence in Ipswich

Saturday 13^th October 2007
7:30 pm

Walton

Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Arnold
English Dances Suite No 1

Britten
Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra

Vaughan-Williams
London Symphony

Conductor: Anthony Weedon

Ipswich Corn Exchange

Tickets from orchestra members, the Ipswich Arts & Entertainments Booking Office (01473 433100) or at the door on the night.
£9, £7 concession, £4 student/child

Season ticket £24, £18 concession available by post from The Friends' Secretary

'English Classics'

Wartime Austerity Reaps Rich Reward
Sir William Walton

Spitfire Prelude & Fugue
Walton adapts his stunning score for the film "The First of the Few" for the concert platform.

		English Folk Tunes Inspire Suite
		Sir Malcolm Arnold
		English Dances Suite No 1
		The first of two suites written to compliment Dvorak's Slavonic dances.


Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Sir Benjamin Britten
Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
A firm favourite of the orchestral repertoire came about out as the accompanying music for the BBC documentary film 'Instruments of the Orchestra'.

	Dedicated to Butterworth
	Ralph Vaughan Williams
	London Symphony
	After being lost, and many revisions later, Vaughan Williams gives us a "Symphony by a Londoner"

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